Paper-sack holder and printer.



G. H. HENKEL ab J. Kunz, 1n.- PAPEB SCK HULDER AND PRINTER.

(Application med Feb. 27, 1899.) (No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 2,-

No. 639,678. Patented Dec. I9, |892,

siren Ser-ares oEoRGE n. HENKEL AND JOHN Kunz, JR., or MIDDLETowN, omo,

l AssIeNoRs or ONE-SIXTH sienne, or SAME rLAcn.

TO `WILTJAM- LING AND 'HENRY VANA l PAPERaSACK HQLDER AND PRENTIER.

SPECIFICATON forming part of Letters Patent No. 639,678, dated December 19,1899.

Application led February 27, 1899. Serial No. 706,958. (,No modelli To all whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that We, GEORGE H. HENKEL and JOHN KUNZ, J r., citizens of the United States, residing at Middletown, in the county of Butler and State of Ohio,haveinven ted certain new and useful'linprovements in Paper- Sack Holders and Printers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,which will enable others skilled inthe art to which it appertains to make and use the same., reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and tothe letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our. invention relates to improvementsprinters for re;

in paper sack holders and tail 'stores-such, for example, as grocery stores, rbc.

The object of the invention is to provide a sack holder and printer in .which the sacks are neatly printed as they are removed from said holder.

The following detailed descriptiomtaken in connection with the accompanying drawings, will clearly define the structural features and advantages of our invention.

Fgurel is a front elevation of the mechanism and supporting-frame. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same, part of the framework being broken away to disclose the sack-compartments. Fig. 3 isa longitudinal elevation of the type-cylinder. Fig. 4' is a cross-sec tional view of the saine. i

Throughout the specification similar refer ence characters indicate-correspondin g parts.

rhc casing or cabinet inclosing the supporting-fran1e A may be of any ornamental design. lNithin the frame A there are three or more upright walls B,which provide compartments C C O for different sizes of paper sacks D. The sacks rest upon inolines E iu order to present their upper ends one above the other in convenient positions to be taken hold of by the fingers. On thefupperend 'of cach wall B there `is a roller F, that extends across and facilitates the removal of the sacks. Au inkl roller l has its journals 2 mounted in slots 3,

which permit of suitable movement e parted to thesaid roller to apply ink tothe being in Cylinder there 'is mounted a roller'23, over of the frame in which the ink-ro1ler an'd'typecylinder are mounted is closed by a door G, j

hinged 'at g. 4

4 designates a short lever pivoted on each side of the frame at 5. There varelopenlings through the front ends of said levers through which pins vproject. The saidpins have heads 6, tha-tlie below the journals 2 ofthe ink-roller. 7 is an adj Listing-nuten the lower lends of said pins, and 8 is a tension-spring on the upper portion of each pin. By means of these'devices theinking-roller has a suitable bearing. On the rear ends of the levers 4 there are trip-pawls 9, which are maintained in the positions shown by g inktroughll is mou nted below saidinkroller,

Atypo-cylinder i3 atstatedl times. Y The front springs l0. The l and the ink is applied to said roller by means of any suitable absorbent material 14, which is suitably suspended or'supported in the inktrough. Any other suitable' means forepplying the ink from the trough to the roller maybe employed. The ink-roller is elevated against the type-cylinder 13 and lowered by,...

segmental cains l2 engagingand releasing thet trip-parvis 9. The type-cylinder has its joui-* nals l5 mounted in slots 16 in the sides ofthe frame and are secu red in said slotsby pnshl. The said cylinder, further, has a longitudinal groove 18 in its surface, in which is secured the rubber or other material 19, having the`A type, by means of a clamp or bar 20, whichtst 'in said groove and is secured to the cylinder by screws or otherwise. 0n the shaft of the type-cylinder and at each endA there is aloose wheeler roller 21, which facilitates the ren moval of the paper sacks as they are drawn out between the type-cylinderand pressure-roller 22. The latter roller. is covered with felt or f other soft material.' Adjacent to the'type# which the sacks are drawn, and thereby prevented from coming in contact vwith the typo` y cylinder only at the point where the impres sion is made. The front one of the rollers E' also serves to prevent t e sacks from coming in contact with thefinhing-rol'ler when being removed. I

25 designates pressnrefroller "1" On each fend of the shaft of the type-cylin der there is a spur-wheel 26, that engages the -segment-gears 27. These gears and the segment-cams 12 move on'a common axis 2S, as do also the arms 29, which carry the pressure-roller 22. These arms 29 and the camsegm'cnts 12 are. integral parts preferably.

30 is a notch lin the upper portion of said cams, and 31 and 32 are arms or extensionsk froui the rear ,part oil" said cams. The latter armlito wit, 32-adords means for attaching springs 33, said springs being also attached tp theframe. Arm 31 has a stop 31.'

f 34e'designates stops ou the frame for the segnert'tl cams 12 at the point from which saidl l'compartment C may contain a number of i sacks, say fifty. The drawings show one com- The sacks are partment with sacks therein. canght hold of singly by the hand and are pulled out a suitable distance to a point where the printing is to begin. The pressure-roller 22 isjthen caught hold of and lowered by the other hand grasping the cover 25. This immediately elevates the inkingroller 1 in cpntact with the type-cylinder by cams l2 c ming in contact with the trippawls 9. Tclie seginentgears 27 are moved by pawls 36 engaging with the inclined projections 39 on the inner sides of said gears. One complete downward movement of said segment-gears causes a movement of the typecylinder snicient to present all of the type to the ink-roller. In the meantime the notches `30 in the `cam-segmentsm-rive at the pawls 9 and the ink-roller is allowed to move down from contact with the type-cylinder. The segment-gears are limited in the downward movement by stop 40 thereon coming iu con-4 tact with stops 41 n the frame. At this period the pawls 36 release the segment-gears by coming in contact with the inclines 38. The sack is thenpulled out, the pressure-roller being held down against it in the meantime.V

This movement of the sack rotates the typecylinder back, .and the segment-gears are driven back by the wheels 26. The said segmentgears aremoved in this manner to, say, the point Fig. 2,".when the stops 411 thereon engage with stops 31a on the arms 31 of the cams. The pressure-roller is then released, and the cams are moved up to their normal positions by springs 33. Lugs or projections 45 on said cams then engage with similar projections 45 on the inner sides of the segment-gears, and the cams and gears are moved back together to their normal positions, as shown in Fig. 2. When stops 44. engage with stops 31 on the back movement,

- the wheels 21.

with the ink on the type-cylinder.

On' eac'ii of the arms 29 there isf the Vtype-cylinder will be idle and thepressure-roller will arrive in a position over the groove 18 in the type-cylinder and rest on This allows the paper sacks to ,be drawn oversaid wheels out ,ofI contact When all of the compartments are filled with-different sizes of sacks, those in the front compartment are of the shorter size in order that .the sacks in the rear compartments may be drawn over the tops of them in position to be printed. When only one size of sack is used,

' as is sh'own in Fig. 2, it is "immaterialwhat sz'e of sacks are placed in the front compartment. ,Foryexampla sacks of the length shown in tlie front compartme nt,Fig. 2, would Yproperlyvbelong in one of the rear compartmentsand'shorter'sacks placed in the front compartment, if all vthe compartments were used. While thelneans herein shown and described successfully accomplish this,yet some variations might be made in the details of construction without departing from the main features of the invention.

Having described our invention, we claim 1; In a'paper-sack holder and printer, the combination with a type-cylinder, and means tor inking said cylinder, of gears and camsv movable simultaneously to elevate 'tl e inking devices and rotate the type-cylinder, and a pressure-roller movable i with said cams and gears and adapted to hold the sacks against the type-cylinder, substantially as specified.

2. In a paper-sack holderand printer, the combination witha type-cylinder, and aninking-roller, of camsv and gearsfor simultan# onsly elevating the inking-roller and rotating the type-cylinder, means on said cams for engaging with the gears in their back and for- ICO ward movements,and a pressure-roller to hold the sacks against the type-cylinder, substantially as specified.

3. In a paper-sack holder and printer, the

combination `with a type-cylinder, and ink-` in g-roller therefor, ofvcams for elevating said inking-roller, gears for rotating said type-cylinder, pawls carried on the cams for engaging said gears and' causing them to rotate with the cams, and means for disengaging said pawls from the gears upon the completion of each (lownward movement, substantially as speci- 4. In a paper-sack holder and printer, the combination with a ty e-cylihder, and inking-roller, of cams for e evating said inkingroller against the type-cylinder,l` segmental gears for rotating' said type-cylinder", means carried on said cams and gears for causing said gears4 to move downwardly simultaneously with the cams, and means for disengaging said cams and gears upon the comple tion of their downward movement.

5. In a paper-sack holder and printer, the combination with a type-cylinder,and an inking-rbller, of segmental cams for elevating said ink'rpgioller, spur-wheels at the ends of said typ/ecylinder, segmental gears engaging i 1inder, andaninking-roller for applying ink.

with said spur-wheels, vand means'on the earns for engaging said segmental gears after said cams have started to move, and a pressureroller carried on said cams, substantially as specified.

6. in apaper-sack holder and printer, thev combination with a'. frame adapted to hold paper sacks in upright position, a'type-eylto said cylinder, 4ol" segmental gears, and cams 'adapted to. rotate the ktype-cylinder and elevatetheinking-roller, means-on the cams forl effecting thenentire movement of said= seg- ""'metai gears' in onedireetiox;and'tneans'for partially mgving them in their returnV movement,` and a pressure-roller carried by said cams for holding the 'sacks against the .typeoylnder during their withd rawal by the'han d f `substantially as speci ed.

' 7. In a paper-'sack holder and printer, the combinationwithafra'me adapted' to hold paper-sacks in upright position, a type-cylinder,

and anfinling-roller, of segmental cams a-nd. gears, said earns adapted to move the inkingroller against the typecylinder, and said gears adapted to rotate'V thetype-cylinder, a pressure-roller carried by said cams, means onsaid eamsfor engaging with the segmental gears toliower them simultaneously-with the downward movement of`- the pressure-roller and earns, and means' for releasing the conneotionbetween the said cams and gears when to moveaway fromthe cylinder when the segthe gearsA have reached thelimit of the downward movement, substantially as specified.

y lira papsrsaelr llolder'and'printer; tle `combination witha type-cylinder, and inking devi-ees forsaid cylinder, of .segmental cams .and vgears adapted to elevate the inking devices and rotate 'the type-cylinder, meanson said cams for permitting the inking devices ment-gears' have effected a rotation of said cylinder, a pressure roller carried on said cams, and means for enabling the eams to en- 'fgage with the segment-gears to move them after said oams have been actuated, substantiallyas specified.

.therevvth'the 'saidsegmental gears, a earn for releasing said engagement between the segmental earns and gears when the said gears have reached the limit of their downward movement, and means for returning said segmental cams and gears to their upper or normal positions, substantially as specified;

- 10. In a paper-sack holder and printer, the combination with a holder, of a type-cylin der, gear-wheels on the shaft of said cylinder, an inking-roller, levers adapted 'td-elevate said inking-roller, tri p-pawls pivoted to said levers, segmental eam's adapted to engage Asaid trip-parvis to aetuate said levers, segmental gears engaging with the gears on the type-cylinder to rotate said cylinder While the inking-roller is against it,and means for simultaneously actuating said cams and seg-4 mental gears, substantially as speeilied.

in testimony that We claim the foregoing as our own we hereto affix our'signatures in presence of two Witnesses.

H. sanitari. JOHN K Unz,

'l Witnessesz' 4 v W; L. GeinLianne,v

HARRY E. SHEETS. 

